Manganum sulphuricum
Manganese(II) sulfate · Mineral
The Manganum Sulphuricum patient has prominent hepatic and gastrointestinal symptoms with excessive bile production. Shooting pains radiating from a toothache are characteristic. This is primarily a remedy for hepatic and intestinal derangements.
Key symptoms
- Extraordinary secretion of bile causing yellow coloration of intestines
- Vomiting and sweating with purgation
- Inflammation of stomach and small intestines
- Toothache with shooting darting pains extending to face, head, and neck
- Tender painful parts to touch
- Hepatic derangement with excessive bilious stools
Better (amelioration)
- Applying a hot smoothing-iron near the surface of skin (toothache pain)
Sulphate of Manganese. MnSO4 4H2O. Solution.
Clinical
Bile, excess of. Gastritis. Liver, affections of; inflammation of. Toothache.
Characteristics
"This Salt of Manganese," says Cooper, "deserves more attention than seems to be at present given to it. It has been proved to cause vomiting, paralysis without convulsions, and inflammation of the stomach and small intestines, as well as of the liver, spleen, and heart in animals, and C. G. Gmelin, who experimented with it, records also its property of causing such an extraordinary secretion of bile that nearly all the intestines were coloured yellow by it, and the large intestines had a wax-yellow colour communicated to them. Mr. Ure, acting on Dr. Pereira's suggestion, found it act on man as a purgative and cholagogue in doses of one to two drachms in half a pint of water. It has, however, caused vomiting and sweating as well as purgation (Pereira, Mat. Med., 4th ed., vol. i. p. 677), and is uncertain in its action (from an allopathic point of view). In one case …
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